Reports

IHA/98/18 United Nations Agencies in Somalia have launched a Donor Alert appealing for $ 18 million to provide emergency assistance in food, nutrition and health to over 300,000 persons in extremely precarious condition in southern and central Somalia. These regions have…

10 -16 November 1998 Security A WFP Logistics team on a road assessment mission in Eastern Equatoria reported on its return that Yei was bombed while they were there during the first week of November. No casualties occurred. WFP teams in Baar,…

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has decided to extend the mandate of the United Nations Office in Burundi until the end of 1999. In a recent letter to the President of the Security Council, the Secretary-General recalls that the Office was…

JOHANNESBURG, 19 November 1998 (IRIN) - The humanitarian community in Angola said on Thursday it was "extremely concerned" that intensified fighting between government troops and UNITA forces in the central highlands in recent days was making it difficult to sustain…

Political situation The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Angola, Mr. Issa Diallo, met early this week in Luanda with the members of the Troika, including the new US Ambassador, Mr. Joseph Sullivan, and members of the Government delegation at…

NAIROBI, 18 November 1998 (IRIN) The worst floods in Sudan for over 50 years displaced a million people, a new donor report says. A multi-agency assessment team has developed a proposed emergency programme to help the country recover from…

UNITED NATIONS Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa Tel: +254 2 622147 Fax: +254 2 622129 e-mail: irin@ocha.unon.org DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Kabila victory will "guarantee" instability, report warns International Crisis Group (ICG), the Brussels-based think…

RUBIN COMMENTS ON ANTHONY LAKE VISIT TO ETHIOPIA, ERITREA (11/18 statement by State Department spokesman) (240) WASHINGTON -- Former White House National Security Adviser Anthony Lake has just returned from a second mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea and plans to…

The information contained in this report was provided by the United Nations Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Unit in Luanda (UCAH) Political Situation The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Angola, Mr. Issa Diallo, met early this week in Luanda with the members of…

JOHANNESBURG, 18 November 1998 (IRIN) A senior Angolan government official has said that Luanda wants to annul the UN-brokered Lusaka Peace Accords reached in 1994 with the opposition UNITA movement. In remarks at a news conference carried by media reports in…